National Call on Competitive Bidding Nov. 8

BALTIMORE — In a post on its website earlier today, CMS
notified industry stakeholders of a national education call on
competitive bidding on
Nov. 8.

According to the notice, “The target audience for this call is
DMEPOS suppliers that will not be contract suppliers in the
program.”

The call has been scheduled for Monday, Nov. 8, from 2 –
3:30 p.m. ET. The message said more details, including registration
instructions, “will be shared in the days to come.”

The message also included information on “The DMEPOS Competitive
Bidding Program Traveling Beneficiary Fact Sheet” (MLN Fact Sheet
201010-44) now available from the Medicare Learning Network:

Once the DMEPOS competitive bidding program becomes
effective on January 1, 2011, beneficiaries with Original Medicare
who obtain competitively bid items in competitive bidding areas
(CBAs) must obtain these items from a contract supplier for
Medicare to pay, unless an exception applies. This includes
beneficiaries who do not live in a CBA but who obtain competitively
bid items while traveling to a CBA. This fact sheet contains
helpful information on competitive bidding program rules that apply
when a beneficiary travels.

To learn more, please visit the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding
Educational Resources page at http://www.cms.gov/DMEPOSCompetitiveBid/04_Educational_Resources.asp
on the CMS website, then select the link entitled “DMEPOS
Competitive Bidding Program Traveling Beneficiary Fact Sheet” in
the “Downloads” section.

Read the announcement in full on the CMS website.

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